People stopped caring much about this after the communism scares in the 50s, when everyone to your left and right was thought to be a communist. They really don't have much say in modern politics, and they're following is minimal at best.

Now that's FUNNY, considering it comes from the "Land of Free Speech". If you have to resort to banning other viewpoints (whether misguided or not), then you are no better than that which you try to silence.

If you would read the book "Mig Pilot" one of the things the helped Lt Belenko decide to defect to the west, was when the political officer was telling him how bad the the Communist Party was treated in the United States. He relized that the United States citizens must have freedom, unlike they were told, because the USSR would never let there be Capitalist Party.

A cursory examination of the above websites, when compared with the following, will yield substantial differences of opinion. While there are several things in the progressive platform that can be enumerated as compatible with Socialist ideas, they are not one and the same ideology though plenty of people see fit to use them interchangeably.

Quoting PacNWjet (Reply 10):Huh? Are political parties routinely banned in the United States?

They should all be equally banned frankly. Keeps the extremists from organizing to harm Americans. Also forces politicians to campaign based on qualifications rather than platform. George Washington warned us about them.

While I have my beef with the Dems and Reps, the Communists and the Nazis are truly dangerous and psychotic. Freedom of speech is important, but don't forget how these groups siezed power in Germany and Russia. The motives of political parties are simply control.

Quoting PacNWjet (Reply 10):Huh? Are political parties routinely banned in the United States?

Thankfully no. I was equally appalled by the OP post but in this country your allowed to think what you want and if your view is considered extreme you don't have to fear bans or censorship. Though you may end up on MSNBC's thought police.

Quoting Airport (Reply 11):Wow, thanks for posting that, I didn't realize there was a modern whig party. I'd say I definitely associate myself with them far more than democrats and republicans.

The Modern Whigs are trying to attract the moderate Democrats and Republican that are disillusioned by those parties as well those with no current party identification because of the lack of a party whose own beliefs closely mirror their own. I fall into the latter category, as while I consider myself a libertarian, I did not agree with everything the Libertarian Party is for. I think that the Modern Whigs stand a good chance as it looks as though the Bob Barr candidacy further splintered the LP in a similar manner as when Pat Buchanan got the Reform Party nomination and splintered that party. If you use Facebook, there is a Modern Whig Party page there as well as a Twitter feed.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a single political party in the US that has been banned. Many of them, especially far-left and far-right parties, just end up fading away because of the strict ballot access laws in many states that end up keeping such parties (as well as many more mainstream third parties and independent candidates) off of the ballot.

There is nothing wrong with the ideal of communism; it's a word which has become associated with actions and beliefs which aren't true to it's original form. Due to human nature it was bound to fail and become what everybody remembers it for though.

It is NEVER effective, because it is based on a flawed assumption - that all people are equal in ambition, intelligence, integrity, work ethic and so forth. That's simply not true - we are not Borg.

Communism can never be achieved - it always stalls at the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' phase, if it even gets that far. The State is incapable of voluntarily abandoning control once it has it.

I would agree with you and go a step further. Even if communist utopia were somehow attainable, I think there are serious moral problems with it (and I am talking about communist economics, not the thought-control baggage that generally comes with it). Practical considerations aside, I can say that I find capitalism normatively and morally superior to communism.

Quoting OA412 (Reply 17):Be honest. Would the two of you really appreciate it if I were to come on here and call right wingers fascists?

Well it seems lately that right wingers have been tagged with racists, violent, hate groups. But try to say that the Liberal/Progressive movement is riddled with Communist/Socialist and everyone gets in a tizzy.

The Progressive and liberal cause is riddled with communist. Since communism got a bad rap here they had to with a kinder, gentler approach to achieve their agenda.

Quoting Boeing4ever (Reply 12):While I have my beef with the Dems and Reps, the Communists and the Nazis are truly dangerous and psychotic. Freedom of speech is important, but don't forget how these groups siezed power in Germany and Russia. The motives of political parties are simply control

Agree

Quoting Aaron747 (Reply 9):Just for the sake of disclosure, the platforms I most closely identify with are these:

Another conservative hit job that cant be backed up because I don't know any liberal including myself who wants to exterminate religion, throw opponents in gulags, kill freedom of speech, paint the flag red and drive a flimsy car. Full freedom of speech, freedom not to be religious or to be of any faith, gay rights, reasonable minimum wage, ergonomic conditions, marketable green technology, safe vehicles, choice in education and in health and equality for women isn't communism and those who don't share your political opinion aren't all stupid, this is not just your America.

"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." John Masefield Sea-Fever

25 OA412
: Not it isn't. You complain about people painting the right wing with a broad brush then you do the same thing to the left wing. Two wrongs don't make

26 AirStairs
: Those have nothing to do with communist economic ideology. But communist elites realized early on that they would not be able to implement their econ

27 DocLightning
: This is partially true. Marx believed in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." So he recognized differences in ability

28 Maverick623
: Riggghhhtttt...... So, according to you, "conservatives" are completely free of fascist and imperialistic ideas, where as "liberals" are mostly made

29 RJ111
: Precisely They are just 2 sides of a coin really. I don't see how one (in a pure form) is particularly more moral than the other.

30 BMI727
: Anyone who thinks that Communism can work should take a ride in a Trabant. (Or a Chevy...sorry, couldn't resist) Well, that gets into philosophy, and